HIDIVE at this point just has a habit of trying hard to push shows with awful production values, huh?
This one has a little less of an excuse for why I even bothered waiting to drop it for so long, because not only does it look bad, ther are few-to-no good ideas to begin with. Human-vampire love stories have been played out for over a decade now, and basically all this ends up coming off as is “edgy Twilight”, which is amazing considering how edgy Twilight seemed to think it was.
I thought this one might turn around, so I was optimistic about it, but at this point, I only watched two episodes and needed to either sit through it or give up, so I’m giving up, because I have more important things to get to. Here are some assorted thoughts based on the two episodes of material I saw.
1) Half of the scenes in this show are, in fact, a direct rip-off of Twilight.
2) The red-yellow eye effect looks utterly hilarious.
3) If the camera isn’t facing a character head-on, they end up looking badly off-model, in every single case.
4) Studio Platinum Vision seems to exclusively make vampire shows, because the only other production on their resume is Servamp, which I’ve been meaning to get to if only because it looks interesting.
3/10, dropped after two episodes.
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